Empire's Children places classic British children's fictional texts into the cultural context of imperial Britain, focusing on themes of patriotism and imperialism from 1895 to about 1945. The book begins with Rudyard Kipling and ends with Arthur Ransome, examining the crucial years from the height of Britain's empire at the end of the nineteenth century to its waning years prior to the Second World War. Empire's Children explores the way that British imperialist tendencies lingered into children's texts well into the 1980s. Other writers examined include Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbitt, A.A. Milne and Hugh Lofting, all of whom continue in print and all of whom were enormously popular and well-regarded authors of their time.
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Kutzer's grasp of postcolonial theory and her careful readings of the texts make this a superb and influential study. Highly recommended; all libraries.
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Dr. Kutzer does an incredible job unearthing the motivations present in British children's literature during the late 1800s. The book is very well researched, and rivals any other author's work on the subject. I highly recommend this book as wonderful reading that exposes the most human side of all literature.
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The vast majority of literary references to empire refer to only two of Britain's imperial outposts: India and Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic empire, imperial leaders, adult narrator, games ethic, animal fantasies, savage native, child readers, adventure fiction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Doctor Dolittle, Christopher Robin, Missee Lee, Miss Minchin, New York, North Pole, The Coral Island, Captain Flint, Jungle Books, Little Princess, The Wouldbegoods, Puck of Pook's Hill, Ram Dass, Rudyard Kipling, Boer War, Hundred Acre Wood, Winter Holiday, Hugh Lofting, South Africa, South Pole, The Aeneid, Arthur Ransome, Hurree Babu, Red House, The Story of the Treasure Seekers New!
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The vast majority of literary references to empire refer to only two of Britain's imperial outposts: India and Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic empire, imperial leaders, adult narrator, games ethic, animal fantasies, savage native, child readers, adventure fiction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Doctor Dolittle, Christopher Robin, Missee Lee, Miss Minchin, New York, North Pole, The Coral Island, Captain Flint, Jungle Books, Little Princess, The Wouldbegoods, Puck of Pook's Hill, Ram Dass, Rudyard Kipling, Boer War, Hundred Acre Wood, Winter Holiday, Hugh Lofting, South Africa, South Pole, The Aeneid, Arthur Ransome, Hurree Babu, Red House, The Story of the Treasure Seekers New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Doctor Dolittle: A Treasury by Hugh Lofting on 17 pages
- The Secret Garden (HarperClassics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett on 12 pages
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett on 11 pages
- A Little Princess by Francis H. Burnett on 11 pages
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett on 11 pages
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- Pinocchio Goes Postmodern: Perils of a Puppet in the United States (Children's Literature and Culture) by Richard Wunderlich in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Beatrix Potter: Writing in Code (Children's Literature and Culture) by M. Daphne Kutzer in Front Matter, and Back Cover
- A Companion to the Victorian Novel (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) by Patrick Brantlinger on page 367, and Index
- Recycling Red Riding Hood (Children's Literature and Culture) by Sandra Beckett in Copyright
- Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter by Jack Zipes in Back Matter
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